Tuesday, April 10

Brian Delaney: “We made a character who was impossible to categorise”

The Sounding from the “No More Flowers” section had its International Premiere with the participation of its co-screenwriter and one of the producers Brian Delaney, who is also the lead actress and director Catherine Eaton’s partner in real life. “We met in Los Angeles where she was an actress. When she went to Vermont to take care of her sick mother, she was so upset that she could not perform that she tore pages off Shakespeare’s plays and stuck them on the wall. Of course her mother thought she had gone crazy. Upon this incident, she worked on a monologue written for a woman, and we went over this, later she put it on stage. It was wonderful, because it was a bout a character who everyone thought was crazy, but who spoke Shakespeare. We created a character who was impossible to categorise to reveal this nonsense. This is also very political drawing attention to new wave feminism as well, because she is a woman who is not allowed my men to speak or act as she wills. Catherine for this role went to a small fishing village in Maine where she remained silent for a month, just in order to experience the pulse of this situation.”

Photo: Ersin Durmuş